• Craft and Criticism

    Class

    Who Gets To Be Bossypants? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs

    By Sarah Jaffe  August 27, 2021
    Westerns

    On Reimagining the Limitless Potential of the Literary Western

    By Gordy Sauer  August 27, 2021
    Journalism

    On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

    By Amy Wright  August 27, 2021
    Labor

    How Come We Don’t Know More About the Largest Labor Battle in the History of the United States?

    By Jeffrey Webb  August 27, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

    By Bonnie Friedman  August 27, 2021
    Family Stories

    Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

    By Michelle Jana Chan  August 27, 2021
    Research

    How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

    By Kia Corthron  August 27, 2021
    The Common

    Jose Hernandez Diaz on the Surrealism of Prose Poetry

    By The Common  August 27, 2021
    How a Person Should Be

    Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

    By Wayne Koestenbaum  August 26, 2021
    Criticism

    Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  August 26, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Matthew Salesses: If We’re Going to Tell Stories About the World, We Need to Make Better Decisions

    By The Maris Review  August 26, 2021
    Faith

    Divine Intervention: 6 Books About Women Leaving Strict Religious Communities and Finding Themselves

    By Jaye Viner  August 26, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett in Conversation with Joshua Henkin

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 26, 2021
    Reading Lists

    10 Short Stories with Great Dialogue That Aren’t “Hills Like White Elephants”

    By Emily Temple  August 25, 2021
    Criticism

    On Finally Being Old Enough
    to Love Proust

    By Adam Bonislawski  August 25, 2021
    Otherppl

    Katie Crouch in Praise of the Not-Perfectly-Plotted Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 25, 2021
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Charlie Jane Anders and Becky Chambers on the Power of Storytelling (and Tea!)

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   August 25, 2021
    The Hub

    “No revision, no second thoughts. Already I am terrified.” Jean Rhys on writing and life.

    By Snigdha Koirala  August 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Breaking news: Men still don’t know how to write women.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  August 24, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?

    By Emily Temple  August 24, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Writing Place and Juggling Projects

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 24, 2021
    Christianity

    JRR Tolkien Invented the Term “Eucatastrophe.” What Does It Mean?

    By Jonathan Walker  August 24, 2021
    Trees

    The 18 Most Memorable Trees in Literature

    By Christopher Cox  August 23, 2021
    Friendship

    The Long Unpredictable Life of Art: Francine Prose on Teaching James Alan McPherson to Incarcerated Students

    By Francine Prose  August 23, 2021
    Neurodiversity

    Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life

    By Steve Edwards  August 23, 2021
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